European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
The European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (EACPT) is a learned society in the field of clinical pharmacology. It is the leading society in Europe serving the European and global Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics community. It has its origins in a working party in the early 1980s under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO-Europe). Subsequently, a committee was created in 1993 chaired by Folke Sjöqvist with the remit to prepare the first congress of EACPT, held in Paris in 1995. At that congress the founding EACPT Council elected an Executive Committee with Sjöqvist as chairman, Michael Orme (United Kingdom) as Honorary Secretary, Jochen Kuhlmann (Germany) as Treasurer, and Giampaolo Velo (Italy) as Vice-Chairman, with 26 European countries as members through their home country clinical pharmacology society or section. The EACPT now includes all national organisations for clinical pharmacology in Europe and provides educational and scientific support for the more than 4000 individual professionals interested in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics throughout the European region, with its congresses attended by a global audience.
Aims
The EACPT promotes in Europe professional and ethical excellence and standards for clinical use of medicines and clinical research on drugs. The EACPT also aims to advise policy makers on how the specialty can contribute to human health and wealth.
Activities
Activities of the EACPT include advice to policy makers and agencies in Europe, holding European congresses and workshops, and publishing policy papers, meeting reports, proceedings of congresses and constituent symposia, and contents of specific lectures. The EACPT also holds Focus Meetings.
Summer Schools
2001 Antalya, Turkey
2003 Budapest, Hungary
2004 Sofia, Bulgaria
2006 Vrsac, Serbia
2007 Ghent, Belgium
2008 Madrid, Spain
2009 Alexandroupolis, Greece
2010 Dresden, Germany
2012 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Education
2013 Edinburgh, Scotland - Practice and Governance
Focused Meetings
2014 Nijmegen, Netherlands - Cardiovascular
2016 Opatija, Croatia - How to Assess Medicines
EACPT Congresses
Congresses are open to delegates from Europe and anywhere in the world, including health professionals, researchers, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry professionals, regulators, policy makers, ethicists and others interested in drug discovery, and in clinical, cost-effectiveness and safety of medicines and related biomarkers.
1995 Paris
1997 Berlin
1999 Jerusalem
2000 Florence
2001 Odense
2003 Istanbul
2005 Poznan
2007 Amsterdam
2009 Edinburgh
2011 Budapest
2013 Geneva
2015 Madrid
2017 Prague
2019 Stockholm
2021 Athens
Lifetime achievement awards
2009 Folke Sjöqvist, Sweden
2011 Sir Colin Dollery, United Kingdom
2013 Carlo Patrono, Italy and Sir Michael Rawlins, United Kingdom
2015 Michel Eichelbaum, Germany
Scientific award for best publication
2009 Ian Wilkinson, Cambridge, United Kingdom
2011 Tabassome Simon, Paris, France
2013 David Devos, Lille, France
2015 Nicholas Bateman, Edinburgh, UK
EACPT-EPHAR Young Investigator Awards in Translational Pharmacology
2015 Christoph Schneider, Bern, Switzerland and Daniel Antoine, Liverpool, UK
Special award for services to EACPT
2013 Michael Orme, United Kingdom
Organisation
The EACPT is led by an Executive Committee formed from a council of delegates from affiliated national societies for clinical pharmacology and therapeutics. The EACPT also has key Working Groups for Research, Ethics and Regulatory Matters, Education and Young Pharmacologists.
Official EACPT Journal
Clinical Therapeutics
References
External links
Pharmacological societies
European medical and health organizations